UrsprungFrom Old Swedish holmber, Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz. Cognate with Icelandic hólmur (dative hólmi), German Holm. (sense 3) is a semantic loan from Icelandic hólmur.
- common-gendera small island, an islet, a holm (normally uninhabited and typically more or less covered with trees)
- common-gendera small (forested) hill, a mound, a knoll (surrounded by relatively flat terrain)
- common-gender, historicala designated place for a duel in early medieval Scandinavia, especially in Norway and Iceland (originally and often a holme in (sense 1) (small island))
Formerholme(indefinite, nominative, singular) · holmes(genitive, indefinite, singular) · holmen(definite, nominative, singular) · holmens(definite, genitive, singular) · holmar(indefinite, nominative, plural) · holmars(genitive, indefinite, plural) · holmarna(definite, nominative, plural) · holmarnas(definite, genitive, plural) · holm(alternative, obsolete)